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Originally posted by gajananpkini manual says that we can stop archiving any time,
no need to restart the db

but what caused the issue here

As long as it's in ARCHIVELOG MODE the logs will need to be archived - so it should be very exceptional to stop the archiving process (which normally should be done automatically: ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG START; ) Yes, you can stop the process, but WHY?